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I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

Vikram Seth

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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Lazy Myself Natural Need Obsession Order
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
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Boredom Strong Writing
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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Fate Late Time Yourself
And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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Friendship Myself Patience Privacy Process Reading Room
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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Imagination Myself Novel Poetry Writing
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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Elegant Experience Face Poetry Reading Sad Story Thinking
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Future Material Nostalgia Time World
I don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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Enough Live Myself People Talk Thinking
I just love music – by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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Eligible Imagination Love Music Myself Professional
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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Happiness Kind Person Place Power Think Yourself
To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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Hard Time Heart Broken Life Love Yourself
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Dreams Inspirational Success Yourself
I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I’m quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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Happiness Interest Myself Quite Subject
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Inspirational Mindset Yourself
Dear though the reader might be, I’d be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Myself Reading

I am certainly not allergic to causes – particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

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